Tolstoy’s Contradictions
This newfound faith embroiled him in a tangle of contradictions that bedeviled both him and his wife up to the moment of his death in 1910. He was a rich landowner who saw private property as evil, an egalitarian surrounded by servants, an artist who rejected almost all art as pernicious, an evangelist for celibacy who fathered 13 children and remained sexually active into his 80s.